Yeah, capacitors haven't come yet. I'll let you know .
I just re-read the original VTT Q6 mod article, and it mentions that the crap VRM's are manufactured by Unisem, so the Niko models should be ok. Something to play with after I get the caps installed, I suppose.
-drasnor
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- Mon Apr 19, 2004 11:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New BP6 and issues
- Replies: 9
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- Sun Apr 18, 2004 4:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New BP6 and issues
- Replies: 9
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Well, I was home this weekend and looked at the original Q6 part on my BP6 and made a troubling discovery. They are Niko L1084D 5A low-dropout regulators , which should be sufficient for this application, meaning either these Niko regulators are crap or this isn't the problem. Also, these regulators...
- Sun Apr 18, 2004 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DUAL DURON motherboards
- Replies: 13
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Shrug. Next week my Mobile Athlon 2600+'s arrive, and I'll be installing them into my MSI K7D Master-LR on top of Upgradeware XP-TMC multiplier control interposers. It should be interesting to see how well they overclock in dual processor mode. I'm given to understand you have to blow a bridge to ma...
- Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New BP6 and issues
- Replies: 9
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I've got a 50W temperature-controlled Weller soldering station, and I find that 550 F works well on most electronic circuits. I use the spring-loaded RadioShack solder sucker for my suckin' needs. I find that I don't need to get ALL the solder off when I'm desoldering components I'm going to replace...
- Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New BP6 and issues
- Replies: 9
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How bizarre. Northbridge should be cooler than the CPU's. Have you put any thermal grease under your greenie? I'm going to replace mine with a Vantec copper Iceberq because I have some that I got on sale a while back. Active cooling + copper heatsinks generally solve most thermal issues ;). To me, 7...
- Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New BP6 and issues
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11466
I got an e-mail from Jackson this morning: capacitors are on the way! I took another look at the LMS8117A datasheet and it looks like it requires a bypass capacitor between the output and ground to stabilize the output voltage. Most regulators require a similar capacitor to function, so it's likely ...
- Tue Apr 06, 2004 9:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New BP6 and issues
- Replies: 9
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New BP6 and issues
Through some strange and fortunate circumstances I now have a free BP6. Well, not completely free. My sister's fiancee's computer developed instability problems and we traded him our family's spare Dell P4 1.4GHz (Williamette = ewwww) system for his. Imagine my surprise when I opened it up to find a...